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a cocktail that demands you crush the mint, not murder it — bruise gently, sip triumphantly.
means A Cuban cocktail of white rum, lime juice, sugar, soda water, and muddled fresh mint, served over ice.
from The name is generally traced to Spanish 'mojo,' a marinade or sauce from 'mojar,' meaning 'to wet' or 'to moisten' — a fittingly liquid ancestry for a drink so dependent on lime and mint. The diminutive '-ito' makes it the 'little wet one,' as it were. The cocktail itself grew up in Havana, with a popular origin tale linking an ancestor drink to Sir Francis Drake's sailors, though that story is more legend than documented fact; what's certain is that mojito became Cuba's signature long before it conquered hotel bars worldwide.
- origin
- Born in 16th-century Cuba as medicine for pirates
- hemingway
- Allegedly Hemingway's drink at Havana's La Bodeguita
- name root
- Likely from mojo, a Cuban lime seasoning
- the mint
- Slap it once to release oils before muddling
- five parts
- Rum, lime, sugar, mint, and soda water
la bodeguita del medio — famous havana bar where hemingway drank mojitos and the drink gained international fame
sloppy joe's bar — historic havana bar that claims to have invented the mojito in the 1920s